Today: The Russia Probe — Accusations, Deflections and Trump’s Tweets

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) speaks to reporters after a meeting at the White House on March 22. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

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The Russia Probe: Accusations, Deflections and Trump's Tweets

California Reps. Adam Schiff and Devin Nunes have held the top positions on the House Intelligence Committee for two years. Now, Schiff and other Democrats are calling on the Republican to remove himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Nunes admitted he had met with a source on the White House grounds before making a bombshell claim that officials in President Trump's transition team had been the subjects of surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies. Nearly a week after Nunes' announcement, Schiff says committee members haven't seen the evidence. Meanwhile, the president tweeted, "Trump Russia story is a hoax."

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, listens to President Trump speak during a breakfast with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 23. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)

President Trump today will order the Environmental Protection Agency to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, a far-reaching initiative former President Obama signed in 2015. The idea was to cut fossil fuel emissions at power plants, a cornerstone of meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord. The Clean Power Plan was already the subject of many lawsuits, and you can expect Trump's action to generate even more billable hours.

When Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss died in 2013, he gave daughter Jeanie control of the business side and son Jim the basketball operations. As the team's fortunes flourished off the court but struggled on the hardwood, some fans wondered what would happen if Jeanie ran it all. Wonder no more, because after some legal formalities, the Lakers are now her show. Columnist Bill Plaschke hopes she'll be "as bold and tough with the team as she was with her brothers."

She was a shy little girl from Chicago who went on to play Norma Desmond, who insisted, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." On this week in either 1897 or 1899, Gloria Swanson was born. Read the 1983 L.A. Times obituary of "a one-woman constellation in the Hollywood skies."

Most freeway commutes are full of woe. On Interstate 680 in the Bay Area, it was full of "whoa!" — when two horses broke loose and eventually made their way onto the freeway during morning rush hour. Watch them gallop along the center divider here, before they were safely corralled.